How to handle Anger

Anger There was a little boy with a bad temper. His father gave him a bag of nails and told him that every time he lost his temper, he had to hammer a nail in the back fence.

The first day, the boy had driven thirty-seven nails into the fence .. Then it gradually dwindled down. He discovered it was easier to hold his temper than to drive those nails into the fence. Finally the day came when the boy did not loose his temper at all. He told his father about it and the father suggested that the boy was to pull out one nail for each day that he was able to hold his temper. The days passed and the young boy was finally able to tell his father that all the nails were gone.

The father took the son by the hand and led him to the fence. "You have done well, my son", he said. "But look at the holes in the fence. The fence will never be the same. When you say things in anger, they leave a scar just like this one."